Serie AJuventus forward has ambitious aims

Juventus' Argentinian striker Paulo Dybala has the fortune of playing alongside Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for club and country.

Few players can boast that throughout their playing career, but Dybala feels that it can fuel his ambition.

"Messi and Ronaldo should see their level fall, due to their age, but they keep doing extraordinary things," he said to La Gazzetta dello Sport in an interview.

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"They are beyond normal and my objective is to be the best of the 'humans.'"

Having just scored a hat-trick against Young Boys in the Champions League, he feels more comfortable than ever and explained a wish to one day win the Ballon d'Or.

"It's a wish that I expressed when I was a boy, to improve you have to have high objectives," he elaborated after a difficult start to the season.

He is now a key member of a team which is finding form and looks to be one of the strongest sides in Italy for years after the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo.

"For me, we were competitive last year too," he said.

"I would've swapped the Champions League for the league title, but now the expectations have grown, the mentality is always the same: win everything."

The Argentina international believes that his team were unfortunate to lose out to Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals last season too and said that his team could've gone further had they progressed.

"Last year Madrid won, but didn't show that they were better than us," he insisted.

"If we had passed that round, everything would've changed, for me, we would have won the Champions League and everyone would say that we were the best, there weren't any teams better than us."

It was Cristiano Ronaldo's last minute penalty after an impressive comeback at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu which consigned Juventus to defeat, but Dybala thinks it was fundamental in persuading the Portuguese superstar to head to Turin.

"I think that that game pushed Cristiano towards Juventus, there he realised our strength and made his decision," Dybala said.

"He's very intelligent and realises things before others."

Now sharing a dressing room with the number seven, Dybala is in awe of his new team-mate.

"What surprised me was his simplicity, if you see him on social media or on television you have a different idea, in reality he's just like us," he explained.

"He works very hard, he's focused on each training session, but he's very calm, he jokes around and gets on with everyone in the same way."

Finally, Dybala also discussed a potential Serie A reunion with Mauro Icardi for the Argentinian national team after a disastrous World Cup.

"Mauro is a great striker, there aren't many as good as him in the box," he assessed.

"Now we have the chance to work together because there were many changes with the national team after the World Cup.

"I hope to be able to form a good relationship with him, because he's a great striker."

Dybala will feature for Juventus against Udinese on Saturday before then travelling to play for Argentina against Iran and Brazil in the upcoming international break.